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The Eldorado Brougham was hand-built in 1957 and outfitted with every conceivable luxury feature of the time, including cruise control, an automatic headlight dimmer, power windows, a transistor radio, and air conditioning—features that would become standard in cars in the decades after.
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Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2025
Lego Icons Retro Radio Building Set This super cool ’70s-style Lego transistor radio is one of the newest additions to the Lego Icons series, which has included other nostalgic builds like a working Pac-Man arcade game and a Transformers action figure.
—Clint Davis, People.com, 11 Jan. 2025
Then, Nasser, a charismatic leader with a powerful government, promoted popular ideas and drove events in other countries, using the new technology of his day, the transistor radio, to call on Arabs to oppose their own governments and follow him.
—F. Gregory Gause Iii, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2011
Monte Moore then Red Rush and later Bill King were always with us, calling the game through my transistor radio.
—Laurence Miedema, The Mercury News, 12 May 2024
The audio amplifier is from an old transistor radio.
—Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2024
Starvation becomes a very real concern — especially after the military calls off its search operation after eight days, which the survivors hear about via transistor radio.
—EW.com, 22 Nov. 2023
Ever since the advent of the transistor radio 70 years ago, summer and portable music have been intertwined.
—Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
But his family’s economic situation in Mumbai, India (then Bombay) in the 1950s and 1960s steered him to engineering—specifically electronics, thanks to his interest in recent innovations embodied in the pocket-size transistor radio.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Apr. 2022
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Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2025
Lego Icons Retro Radio Building Set This super cool ’70s-style Lego transistor radio is one of the newest additions to the Lego Icons series, which has included other nostalgic builds like a working Pac-Man arcade game and a Transformers action figure.
—Clint Davis, People.com, 11 Jan. 2025
Then, Nasser, a charismatic leader with a powerful government, promoted popular ideas and drove events in other countries, using the new technology of his day, the transistor radio, to call on Arabs to oppose their own governments and follow him.
—F. Gregory Gause Iii, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2011
Monte Moore then Red Rush and later Bill King were always with us, calling the game through my transistor radio.
—Laurence Miedema, The Mercury News, 12 May 2024
The audio amplifier is from an old transistor radio.
—Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2024
Starvation becomes a very real concern — especially after the military calls off its search operation after eight days, which the survivors hear about via transistor radio.
—EW.com, 22 Nov. 2023
Ever since the advent of the transistor radio 70 years ago, summer and portable music have been intertwined.
—Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
But his family’s economic situation in Mumbai, India (then Bombay) in the 1950s and 1960s steered him to engineering—specifically electronics, thanks to his interest in recent innovations embodied in the pocket-size transistor radio.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Apr. 2022
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“Transistor radio.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/transistor%20radio. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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